It's Lit! 2025 Trivia Game (Round 1)

Singapore

100

Singapore's ancient name

What is Temasek?

200

The current Education Minister

Who is Desmond Lee?

300

Place famous for its rich Peranakan heritage, vibrant food scene, and iconic shophouses

Where is Katong?

400

2 inscriptions on UNESCO Representative List

What are

• Singapore Botanic Gardens (2015 - World Heritage Site)
• Hawker culture (2020 - Intangible Cultural Heritage)
• Kebaya (2024 - Intangible Cultural Heritage)

500

The system that the Singapore government is modelled after

What is the Westminster / British system (legislature, executive, judiciary)?

World

100

The meaning of VUCA

What is Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity?

200

Full names of current presidents of America, China, Russia

Who are Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin?

300

3 ongoing global conflicts

Where are the Russian-Ukraine war, Israel-Hamas war, Sundanese Civil War?

400

The practice among those with power or influence favouring relatives, friends, or associates, especially by giving them opportunities in their career

What is nepotism?

500

5 countries with veto powers

Who are China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States?

• 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council
• A single "no" vote from one of them can stop a resolution from passing
• This power was granted to the victorious powers of World War II at the founding of the UN

Pop Culture

100

The trend popular among Gen Alpha involving 2 numerals

What is 6-7?

200

Most famous song from the musical Wicked

How do you sing "Defying Gravity?

300

A global girl group known for diversity with 6 members from the Philippines, South Korea, Switzerland, and the United States

Who is KATSEYE?

400

Highest grossing film of all time

What is Avatar (2009 - $2.92 billion) directed by James Cameron?

500

2 Spider-Man movies (cannot be Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, etc)

What are 

• Across the Spiderverse (2023)
• No Way Home (2021)
• Far From Home (2019)
• Into the Spiderverse (2018)
• The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

Literature

100

The full name of the most famous playwright in the world

Who is William Shakespeare?

200

Richest children's author

Who is J.K. Rowling?

300

5 literary devices

What are...?

400

A type of poem written in 14 lines, iambic pentameter and a volta

What is a sonnet?

• Iambic pentameter: Each line generally contains ten syllables with an alternating pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables, creating a rhythm like a heartbeat (da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM).
• Shakespearean sonnet: Three quatrains (four-line stanzas) with an ABAB CDCD EFEF rhyme scheme, followed by the volta in a two-line rhyming couplet (GG).
• Petrarchan sonnet: An octave (eight-line stanza) with an ABBAABBA rhyme scheme, followed by the volta at the beginning of the sestet (six-line stanza) with a variable rhyme scheme, like CDCDCD or CDECDE.
• Volta: shift in thought or argument

500

2 comedies by Shakespeare

What are 

• All's Well That Ends Well
• As You Like It
• The Comedy of Errors
• Love's Labour's Lost
• Measure for Measure
• The Merchant of Venice
• The Merry Wives of Windsor
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Much Ado About Nothing
• The Taming of the Shrew
• The Tempest
• Twelfth Night
• The Winter's Tale
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• The Two Noble Kinsmen
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona
• The Two Noble Kinsmen

Arts

100

The 3 types of arts

What are the visual arts, performing arts and literary arts?

200

Composer who became deaf but continued to write music

Who is Beethoven?

300

City that The Phantom of the Opera is set in

Where is Paris?

400

4 famous Italian Renaissance artists after whom 4 cartoon characters are named

Who are Leonardo da Vinci, Donatello di Niccolò, Raphael Sanzio, and Michelangelo Buonarroti?

500

An artistic, intellectual, and cultural movement that flourished in Europe from the late 18th to the mid-19th century, emphasising emotion, imagination, and individualism

What is Romanticism?